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Sports Page -- There was SKNABA action at the Grell Hull-Stevens Netball Complex on Saturday 15th June. That’s when IREP Challengers engaged home team, PJ’S. It was a one sided affair as the home team started badly in the first quarter and…

Kingston, Jamaica -- Jamaica's cricket coach Junior Bennett says the selection of batsman Jermaine Blackwood in the West Indies squad to face New Zealand in the second Test match comes as no surprise. The 22-year-old Blackwood, uncapped at…

Sports Page -- Such had been the mastery of bat against ball at Lord's that few would have quibbled at the notion that Gary Ballance might complete the fourth day with a maiden Test century to his name. This Test surface has not been short…

Sports Page -- Openers Ajinkya Rahane and Robin Uthappa made fifties as India beat Bangladesh by seven wickets after a nearly three-hour rain interruption during their chase. Bangladesh rustled up 272 for 9 after choosing to bat on a slow…

(CNN) -- It was the moment the world had been waiting for, and as he has so often in his glittering career, Lionel Messi delivered. After a frantic opening to the World Cup in Brazil with entertainment and goals aplenty, one of its…

Sports Page – * St. Thomas/Trinity Strikers will remain in the SKNFA Premier Division for 2014 - 15 season after defeating Trafalgar Southstars, second in Division 1 in the one match playoff Played at Warner Park On Saturday. St.…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC) -- West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul has leapfrogged Kumar Sangakkara into second position for Test batsmen while three fast bowlers in the regional side have returned to the ICC rankings.…

MANGARATIBA, Brazil (AFP) - As expected from a man of few words, Andrea Pirlo has shrugged off suggestions his role for Italy at the World Cup carries special status as the Azzurri prepare to face England in Manaus today. Yet evidence from…

(Sports Page)-- IT promises to be a festival of speed at today's New York Grand Prix IAAF Diamond League meeting at Icahn Stadium in Randalls Island. A number of top Jamaican sprinters, led by former IAAF World Champions Yohan Blake, in…

(Sports Page)—It was indeed a hard fought game and the few spectators on hand, were highly entertained. This as the local Basketball league action continued on Thursday night with the match up for third place honours between PJ’S and the…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) - Jamaican opener Nkrumah Bonner unleashed a hostile century to catapult West Indies High performance Centre to a six wicket victory over Bangladesh A in the third and final One Day game of a three match series…

(Sports Page)— Joe Root accepted the opportunity to put a disrupting Ashes series behind him by marking the onset of England's Test summer with a third hundred once again replete with promise. It was a polished affair against a Sri Lanka…

(Sports Page)— MS Dhoni, the India captain, is the only cricketer on the list of 100 highest-paid athletes in the world. He is also, obviously, the only Indian on the list. At 22, he has fallen six places from the list released in 2013,…

(CNN) -- Nervy, unconvincing and fortuitous -- but Brazil could scarcely care less. On a night where its players finally stepped into the high-pressure cauldron atmosphere of the World Cup on home soil, Brazil found a way to win. Gone are…

(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal, the man who stood on top of the tennis world after winning his ninth French Open title last weekend, was brought back to earth with a bump Thursday. The world No.1, so dominant on the clay at Roland Garros, was…